scuffle

英语

发音

Scuffle

• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈskʌfəl/

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• 韵部：-ʌfəl
• 断字：scuf‧fle

词源1

可能源自北日耳曼语支或斯堪的纳维亚语言；对比瑞典语 skuff (“推”, 名词)、skuffa (“推”, 动词)，源自原始日耳曼语 *skuf- (skuƀ)，源自原始印欧语 *skewbʰ-，参见立陶宛语 skùbti (“急忙”)、波兰语 skubać (“拔”)、阿尔巴尼亚语 humb (“丢失”)。

名词

scuffle (复数 scuffles)

1. 扭打，打斗，小规模冲突
   • 1692, Roger L'Estrange, “Fab[le] CCCCLXX. A Farmer and His Servant.”, 出自 Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflexions, London: Printed for R[ichard] Sare, T. Sawbridge, B. Took, M[atthew] Gillyflower, A. & J. Churchil, and J[oseph] Hindmarsh, →OCLC; 2nd corrected and amended版, London: Printed for R[ichard] Sare, B. Took, M[atthew] Gillyflower, A. & J. Churchil, J[oseph] Hindmarsh, and G[eorge] Sawbridge, 1694, →OCLC，第 435 页:

     The Dog leaps upon the Serpent, and Tears it to Pieces; but in the Scuffle the Cradle happen'd to be Overturn'd: […]

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   • 1899 Feb, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, 出自 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine，第 198 页:

     It appears the Company had received news that one of their captains had been killed in a scuffle with the natives.

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   • 2016年6月11日, Phil McNulty, “England 1–1 Russia”, 出自 BBC Sport‎^[1]，于13 June 2016归档自原页面:

     Fights ensued as many England supporters attempted to retreat before some stewards moved in. Intermittent scuffles continued to break out until the section of the crowd where the trouble started was vacated.

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2. (古) 幼儿用的围兜

动词

scuffle (第三人称单数简单现在时 scuffles，现在分词 scuffling，一般过去时及过去分词 scuffled)

1. (不及物) 扭打，打斗
   • 1648, attributed to Charles I of England, Εἰκὼν Βασιλική [Eikōn Basilikē = Royal Portrait]. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie, in His Solitvdes and Svfferings, [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC，第 15 页:

     Certainly a gallant man had rather fight to great diſadvantages for number and place in the field in an orderly way, then ſcuffle with an undiſciplined rabble.

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2. (不及物) 窸窸窣窣地走
3. (俚语) 勉强过活，生活艰难

词源2

借自荷兰语 schoffel。

名词

scuffle (复数 scuffles)

1. 推式锄

近义词

• scuffle hoe, Dutch hoe

参考资料

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.